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Peter Dinklage Joins FX’s Alien: Earth Season 2 as Series Regular

The Emmy winner’s arrival points to an expanded second season built at London’s Pinewood Studios.

Overview

  • Multiple outlets credited to Deadline reported Wednesday that Peter Dinklage will join Season 2 as a series regular, with his character kept under wraps.
  • Production is slated to start in May at London’s Pinewood Studios, a return to a key Alien filming hub after Season 1 shot in Thailand.
  • Alien: Earth is the franchise’s first TV series, created by Noah Hawley, and it is set before Ridley Scott’s 1979 film.
  • Season 2 will pick up after a Season 1 cliffhanger and is expected to push deeper into the story’s corporate power struggle without revealing plot specifics.
  • Deadline broke the casting news, which Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Gizmodo, UPI, and others confirmed.